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Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:September 2, 1761; 1742; July 1, 1756; February 13, 1756
Contributor:Brodhead, Charles | Dioga | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Newcastle, Captain | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Treaties | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: In sections 2:437, 1:155, 1:103-106. Dioga, French, and Iroquois threats; attacks planned; danger to life of Brodhead. Names of the Indians present at the treaty held at Philadelphia, July 1742. Pockschnos, the Shawanese chief has gone to a council at Sir William Johnson's. Treaty session at Carlisle with the Haudenosaunee.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Language:English
Date:1755-1763
Contributor:Bassee, C. | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Levan, Jacob, 1702-1768 | Trexler, Peter | Barons, Benjamin | Chapman, John | Denny, William, 1718- | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Powell, Joseph | Martin, James | Orndt, Jacob | Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Galbreath, James | Westbrook, Adam | McCarthy, James | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 | Newcastle, Captain
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Health | Religion | Trade | Warfare | Military history | Wampum
Type:Text
Extent:56 letters
Description: In sections 1 and 2. Correspondence during the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) regarding Indian attacks on the frontier and attempts to protect friendly Indians. One letter discusses the use of passports by friendly Indians. Mention of a "berserk soldier at Fort Allen behaves indecently among squaws."
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)